From Live at Blackheath Halls 19/09/13, released 04 Oct 2013

Alto Sax - Nathaniel Facey
Alto Sax/ Clarinet - William Scott 
Tenor Sax/ Clarinet/ Flute - Leo Aarons-Richardson
Tenor Sax - Claire Furlong
Bari Sax/ Bass Clarinet - Greg Sinclair
Trumpet - Tom Dennis, Mike Soper, Lily Carassik, Alaric Taylor
Trombone - Ross Lumbard, Rosie Turton, Hannah Dilkes, George Wrench
Electric Guitar - James Kitchman
Keyboards/ Piano - Elliot Galvin 
Double Bass - Louis Thomas 
Drums - Liz Exell

The full live album can be streamed and downloaded for here: https://emmajeanthackray.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-blackheath-halls-19-09-13

Johari's Window feat. James Kitchman/  Nathaniel Facey [LIVE]

Tom Marshallsay & Andrew Baker 
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Guest musicians 
Stephen Henderson - Cymbals & Drums
Iain Jennison - Viola

April

Hymns and Carols
A Fantasy on Christmas Carols
The Christmas fantasy Hymns and Carols is based on a number of relatively unknown carols. Alongside three English Christmas carols, this composition includes a fragment of a Gregorian chant, a Marian antiphon (Salve Regina), and a Russian Carol. A characteristic feature of this last song is the recurring motif that symbolises the bells chiming to welcome in the New Year. The English carols represent the more lyrical part of this fantasy. The piece has a majestic ending, which returns to the aforementioned Salve Regina, a hymn to the Virgin Mary.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/20248/en

Hymns And Carols (A Fantasy on Christmas Carols) - Harrie Janssen

Deeply embedded in the 22a South London beat scene, Reginald Omas Mamode IV returns to One-Handed Music for his next EP. On 'In This Case', a swirling staccato beat hypnotises the ears, while Reggie's own vocals offer a soothing contrast alongside wandering rhodes chords and playful bass line.  

Read more and listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/GPWW-RoM
Buy:  https://fiveeasypieces.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-the-universe

Reginald Omas Mamode IV - In This Case (Get Over Yourself) (Worldwide Premiere)

Crew Download: http://bit.ly/1P5czA7

"Island Life" from Nick Monaco & David Marston out now on Wolf + Lamb Records.

"Greetings from Jamaica! We write to you from the Blue Mountains above Kingston, known for their coffee, ganja, and now a new collaborative project that we call "Island Life." Inspired by tropical fruits, thunderous nights, exotic figures, and post card scenery - this is the freshest shit you'll hear all year." 

- Island Life (Nick & David)

https://soundcloud.com/nickmonaco
https://soundcloud.com/davidmarstonja

Island Life

It's the Time

Crew Download

Nick Monaco & David Marston - It's The Time feat. Craig Williamson

Tribute Vamp

The shelf by the toilet in my childhood home is jam-packed with old memorabilia. And in between all the bits and bobs, I found the greatest objet d’art of them all: Hubbas soundtrack from the late, great film director Arild Kristos’ magnum opus, “Eddie & Suzanne” (1975). A classic, romantic Shakespearean road movie.

One of those who really hated the film, and who should therefore be listened to is the renowned late film critique Pål Bang Hansen. He wrote:

“Arild Kristo wants you to think that lust is all-consuming love, when really it's just endorphins. What makes things even worse is what must be one of the most gloopy and phallic film scores in recent memory: hubbabubbaklubb’s “Eddie & Suzanne”, which seduces teenage girls into paroxysms of romantic grief… blæh!

A: Eddie & Suzanne
B: Virkelighet 

Get your Eddie & Suzanne LP now @snorkelrecords.com
Limited wax only
Out now!

Artwork by Otio Yüng

Eddie & Suzanne

SNRKL003 hubbabubbaklubb - Eddie & Suzanne 7"

fullmoon JTC refix

Cool It

Already a favorite of "beat diggers" and considered one of the "grail" albums from the Hoctor catalog with copies going for big money, it was originally released in the '70s on the now-defunct label, this is the first time that the "Moves" album has been re-issued. 
Available direct at: http://bit.ly/IECa10
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1JXSPji
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1LdSR8h
iTunes: http://apple.co/1VqH38R

Thom Janusz - "Crystals"

In 1972, Orchestre Abass released two incredible singles on Polydor. These records - featuring Samarin Banza, Haka Dunia and other afrofunk masterpieces - were powerful enough to knock any music head out, but it wasn’t until the discovery of some unreleased material by the band that the seeds for this project were planted. 

It all happened in 2008 in Ghana. I was going through some tapes that had previously been the property of PolyGram one of the major record companies based in west Africa. In the late 80s political instability and curfews had paralysed the music industry forcing Polygram to close their Ghanaian subsidiaries leaving all of their recordings behind. These recordings had been packed in boxes and left vegetating in an Accra warehouse for three decades until I came along. To my surprise all of the tapes looked unharmed and I was particularly relieved to hear that the Orchestre Abass tape was in an excellent state of condition. I began fiddling around with the idea of releasing an album of the band and that plan got an additional boost with le “coup de grace” which had landed in the form of an ultra rare tune called Honam discovered in Sotoboua, a small northern Togolese town in the middle of nowhere. That find completed this selection.

I had previously discovered some similar music in Northern Benin and in Nigeria and I started picturing an area that spread all the way from Northern Ghana to Northern Cameroon, an area I dubbed ‘The Islamic funk belt’ due to the fact that Super Borgou de Parakou, Napo De Mi Amor, Uppers International and Hamad Kalkaba just to name a few - all from that ‘belt’ - were groups made up of musicians with an Islamic background. This can be felt and heard in the music and particularly in the singing since many of the musicians had attended koranic schools and the languages used in the songs often had Arabic elements fused in - Orchestra Abass was one of them. 

With their heavy, organ-led sound combining with the deftest of musical touches, these records were the work of a rhythmic powerhouse and we are honoured to be in a position to present the recordings of Togo´s funkiest Band.

Unfortunately Malam Issa Abass, the founder, guitarist and organ player of the band, was killed in 1993 by a grenade thrown into his bedroom and to help me reconstruct the biography of the band I tracked down Thon Komla, one of the band´s songwriters and Abderaman Issa, the guitar player of the band. 

All the music was licensed directly from the various composers of these songs. The vinyl is pressed on 180 High Quality Virgin Vinyl and the gatefold contains previously unseen pictures and a detailed biography of the might band.

Johari's Window feat. James Kitchman/ Nathaniel Facey [LIVE]

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